antlike

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling an ant. Often used specifically in reference to apparent size or significance.
    — On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass silently to their work.

词形变化

more antlike comparative most antlike superlative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā
Old English ǣmete
Middle English ampte
English ant
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -like
English -like
English antlike
From ant + -like.
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